Program Courses
Please note that course schedules may be amended due to low enrollment, faculty availability, and/or other factors.
All online literature classes (LIT-DL) consist of ten synchronous Zoom sessions held remotely at the time noted in the schedule. Attendance at these sessions is required.
LIT 410-DL : Introduction to Graduate Research and Cultural Analysis
Description
This course provides an introduction to literary and critical
theory by putting theoretical texts representing a variety of
critical and interpretive approaches into dialogue with key
literary and cinematic works. The focus of the class will be on the
role of literature, film and other cultural forms—from the novel to
lyric poetry, and from art film to mass culture—in the
representation and narration of social life, as well as to multiple
aesthetic and theoretical approaches to the interpretation,
historical analysis and critique of the forms of individual and
collective experience. Critical and theoretical readings will
include writings by such figures as Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Walter Benjamin, Georg
Lukàcs, Edward Said, Judith Butler, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan,
Shoshana Felman, Hortense Spillers, Michel Foucault, Fredric
Jameson, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Rancière. We will also discuss
the literary and cinematic works of such writers and filmmakers as
Bertolt Brecht, G.W. Pabst, André Breton, Salvador Dali, Charles
Baudelaire, Honoré de Balzac, Joseph Conrad, Edgar Allan Poe, Assia
Djebar, Ridley Scott, Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley and Jean Renoir.
This course will also prepare students for graduate work in
literature, film and the interpretation of culture by focusing on
the possibilities and limits of different interpretive approaches,
research methods and genres of academic writing.
This class satisfies the core course requirement for both the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies and Master of Arts in Literature programs.
Note: This course meets weekly online.
Spring 2025 | ||||
Start/End Dates | Day(s) | Time | Building | Section |
03/31/25 - 06/13/25 | Sync Session Tu | 7 – 9:30 p.m. | 55 | |
Instructor | Course Location | Status | CAESAR Course ID | |
Durham, Scott | Online | Open |